Spring Sing 2017 saw more applicants than any other year of the talent show’s 72-year history. The 15 members of the Spring Sing Committee narrowed down this year’s around 100 applicants to the final 17 performers that will appear onstage Friday. Read more...

Photo: Spring Sing talent directors Kayla Samuels, Chelsey Brody and Angela Navas and executive director Paige Allenspach (left to right) were on the committee that chose the final 17 performers who will appear on stage on Friday. (Andrew Arifin/Daily Bruin)

Nine-year-old Imaan Fitzgerald stood in front of 1,000 people and began to sing “We Are a Family,” her voice bouncing off the steep walls of Crystal Cathedral. Read more...

Photo: Fifth-year film student Imaan Fitzgerald plays the ukulele, guitar and piano and began writing her own songs in middle school. She will be performing a solo soul set at Spring Sing this year. (Axel Lopez/Daily Bruin)

Haylee Hessell never imagined she would practice one song as many times as she has rehearsed her song “Let Him Go” for Spring Sing. She’s practiced the song at least 50 times already. Read more...

Photo: Third-year English student Haylee Hessell has her father to thank for her interest in music. He taught her to play guitar, took her to a Rolling Stones concert and brought her to a Santa Monica guitar shop. (MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)

Isabel Whelan is used to taking stage as part of an ensemble. The third-year communication studies student performed at Spring Sing her freshman year as part of the Delta Gamma and Lambda Chi production and at Coastalong Festival and Dance Marathon this year as a part of Sage St. Read more...

Photo: Third-year communication studies student Isabel Whelan will be performing the ballad “Ms. Hollywood” under the stage name BEL at Spring Sing this year. (Eileen Lising/Daily Bruin)

Hannah Connery drove to Las Vegas to film scenes for a Spring Sing comedy sketch with a 101-degree fever, coughing throughout the 12-hour video shoot. Connery, a third-year theater student, joined the ensemble Company this year because she was allured by the prospect of writing, filming and acting in Spring Sing’s comic relief team. Read more...

Photo: Students Hannah Connery, Nathan Glovinsky and Natalina Cosenza (left to right) will take part in Company’s performance at Spring Sing 2017. The 13-person comedy troupe will perform live sketches and will project prerecorded videos in between the talent acts Friday. Some of the sketches required out-of-state filming in Las Vegas and an animal rental, which defecated everywhere. (Emma Skinner/Daily Bruin)

Rain forced Regina Silva and members of Gamma Phi Beta and Pi Kappa Phi to seek cover underneath a concrete overhang of the J.D. Morgan Center in Bruin Plaza. Read more...

Photo: Twenty-six student members of Gamma Phi Beta and Pi Kappa Phi will perform together at Spring Sing 2017, after auditioning together for the past three years. (Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Daily Bruin)